Man gets 20 years jail for sexually abusing daughter
THANE, Sep 25: A special POCSO court in Maharashtra’s Thane district has sentenced a man to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment after holding him guilty of sexually abusing his nine-year-old daughter, a case their neighbour had exposed.The court also fined the 35-year-old convict Rs 50,000.The public prosecutor told the court that the man used to sexually abuse his daughter when his wife was away and after driving away their other children.In August 2020, a neighbour, who had observed a change in the girl’s behaviour, persuaded the minor to share her ordeal. The 20-year-old neighbour then approached the police, ensuring the man’s arrest.Six prosecution witnesses, including the neighbour, deposed in the court. The girl and her mother were not among the witnesses. (PTI)
FIR against SP MLA for threatening party worker
JAUNPUR, Sep 25: An FIR was on Wednesday registered against Samajwadi Party MLA from Kerakat seat Tufani Saroj for allegedly threatening to kill his own party’s contituency incharge, police said.The FIR was filed on a complaint of Samajwadi Party’s Kerakat assembly seat in-charge Vivek Kumar Yadav. The MLA was not available for comments. Tufari Saroj represents the Kerakat constituency of the district in Uttar Pradesh Assembly and his daughter Priya Saroj is the SP MP from Machhlishahr. Police said that in his FIR Yadav alleged that Tufani Saroj called him on his mobile phone on September 19 at around 9 am and threatened to kill him.“MLA Tufani Saroj said that ‘we got the Thakurs shot in 2004’ and I should be careful or else I will also be murdered,” Yadav said.Yadav had requested SP Jaunpur to register a case against Tufani Saroj citing a threat to his life and property. (PTI)
Class 9 student drowns in river after bunking school
KATNI, (MP) Sep 25: A Class 9 student drowned while taking a bath in a river after bunking school classes in Katni district of Madhya Pradesh on Wednesday, police said.The incident occurred in the afternoon in Katae Ghat river an official said. “The boy, Harshit Tiwari, 14, who studied in Class 9 of a private school bunked the classes with his five friends and went to the river to take bath with them. However, after entering the river, he soon got trapped in deep water and drowned,” he said.People present there informed the police following which he was pulled out of the water and taken to a district hospital, where doctors declared him dead, the official said. (PTI)